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FLOW OF AMERICAN TROOPS ‘TO BATTLE LINES IN FRANCE PUTS NEW LIFE INTO ALLIES — on Means “No Breathing Spell” for Foe and Possibly Peace Overtures, PEELERS ALREADY OUT. Allies Gain by Each Day’s De- lay—Will Consider Nothing Less Than Wilson’s Terms. By Martin Green. Bpeoial Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. a ing Oo, evrriage, 1910. Wa reins Wonk PARIS, |May 6. ETURNING to Paris for a short stay, after a long absence, I find everywhere a more cheerful epirit than that which prevailed when I went away At that time the long 93003680000 00008 = separation of the British and French | armies—has failed of its objective; and every day the renewed offensive is delayed counts in favor of the Allies in that they are swiftly consolidating | men and guns at points toward which the German drive is aimed. | GERMANY AS USUAL MISCALCU- , LATED ACTION OF U.8, | It is anticipated that the Germans are preparing to use their complete resources in the extension of their! attack in the direction of Ypres and Amiens. In case of failure they could not, in the Judgment of mili- tary authorities, prepare another of- | fensive on a large scale within eight months. Ig the mean time the high command of the Allies might decide upon a counter offensive should con- ditions warrant such a move. |4 The Paris and London papers are full of comment on German peace feelers which have been thrown out, more or les ‘unningly. ese feelers distance Prerspes are regarded in France and Great| hatlbeded TOppINS | Britain as overtures to an announce- \¢ bombs into the| ment by the Central Powers of a d city according t0| sire to hold a conference on the sub- a time table} ject of peace terms, Editorial opin- | schedule, night! ion reflecting the spirit of the Brit- alarms of aif/ish and French people is unanimous raids were not in-/ in holding to the Proposition that the frequent, the Ger-| only terms the Allies can consider man armie8/are terms which shall follow along ° were at the heigt!|the general line of the conditions ad. $.9.494009950-9990095606908 9:04609000000000 of their advance,| vanced by President Wilson | of 1919, United States | and ninety-seven men are thus and the timld| mmo.day, despite th me ny, has finished the | released for immediate service were leaving town| pained bs he pite the advantage! four-year ree in three years | with the navy. ‘The attendgnt nae Falned by the Germans in their great) and han graduated. One hundred ceremonies were impressive And indroves. drive launched on the 218t of March,) ——— sania Pediatr: bain Bea ishatch ih cinema iene The bombardment continues, by! ‘| the position of the Allies in respect of | 4s worth only a couple of lines in the| the western front is more beescaiii S wt wt be a unequalled in the his-| wait; Germany cannot walt, and that papers now, the last air raids were/than it has been since the outbreak of We haven't ms yat d tht es er ae eerie vada np unsuccessful, the German armies|the war. The reason is the active ® haven't as yet done many things} Paris thes days the phrase have been stopped, and there is a participation of th nited States. een sie ni aii done mon bal et hen mee i a Rae eberal ctpreasion twat from ow'on| te ia’ wereed by All willlary expertélcieecs ther ee oe een oP ee coe eae ts eee he Allied forces will bave the better : 9 3 8 along the lines of preparation and] of France are crowded with visitors. the 4 f)that the German drive was timed transportation have been little short| Hotel proprietors in Paris are refur- Of the struggle on the western front.| with a view to destroying the British : 3 y ¥ i ritish of miraculous, and Germany {s just|nishing’ and repairing or preparing France awaits with confidence the| Army before the United States could out E he Gi to refurnish and re ts of th result of the new German offensive.|pe counted one ates anaine tt out, Re ently the ets u re Cll ie repair Lal oe eir ‘There is in Paris and’ in other parts| Germs, a orces have been testing the fighting | houses, which have been closed since bg dermany is not dece - spirit of our men in sectors we hold| the beginning of the war or have been of France I have visited in the past} sources of the U 8 : i font a feeling that the war is un | cues oF the inited States in men, by a series of raids in force. In every | taken over by the Government. Crops Mta'last legs, 60 to speak. ‘Thus far] Myre 4nd Money, but there are vis instance they found the boys in khaki] in France are abundant and the har- Germany's great finishing stroke—tie | Mdications that Germany under- ready for the test. It has suddeniy!| vest will be large. Paris is going on rated our resourcefulness and energy. dawned on the German high command|a schedule of three meatless days a As on former occasions, her spies'that the British and French have ac- | week, beginning May 16, but the pros- ? g have given her wrong information. cumulated large and effective armed| Pect is faced with equanimity be ou ve Iriedthe GSE. | What eee - Gasman aes fac feb eta cause of the widespread feeling that ‘ns ; agents re orcemen' the meatless day rule will not last N T h Be hought was a collapse of our prepa-| | wish I could tell detail of the | long. ow iry the St | rations was merely confusion attend encouragement [ have experien RRC % The world’s best! Makes ordi-|!* the *xecution of a tremendous from recent observations alone our! RED BROSS WORKERS NURSE nary meat, cheese, sardine and ppt to me ey ma-/front and behind our front. At this ‘ chinery to start with and had to sup-!timoe the 1 y censorship, for good slouiledsoug | civ gue qaduinery aay Gur orpastace| ints ia ciey vececeeanciace Ws eee WOUNDED UNDER FIRE : eC BE! ply our machinery as our orgar and sufficient reasons, decides to keep ld, hes to tion grew some very good news hidden. ‘There — tid oslisios BREATHING SPELL FOR ALLIES, '* alway ent the bene Mi we) Under Continual Bombardment of - na ‘ouse too much confidence tn ‘4 —Try it! VERY GOOD NEws. hall I States and lead the people} German Aviators for Six Days Guaranteed] Evidently the German nts, fa-| into disappointme War is war, and} and Six Night to satisfy, or| miliar only with the procc of this is the toughest war ever fought. Danis une For ein dave and your money | sanization current in Germany, where | No army 4s invinetble nights, despite a continued bomba back. Jevery detail is worked out and all the) -phe German Army is the greatest |ment by German aviators, American Red tachinery is supplied! before a mill | y,)1\_ sachin constructed.| Cross canteen workers remained ir tary project is launched, completely | con the fact that our base is| Epernay, south of Rheims, nursing and fi underestimated American genius fer i 4.000 miles from. the, feeding wounded sold Austin Nichols & Cos organization under difficulties . ledalda of Hrance. we have DAEA ce areas many now know nt the nited|— ’ Noe : ise attack and the hospital a States has great armics in Europes! rutive part Our activities! ¢ited, — Wounded overflowed into and that, while in some respe ur) a vdening Ww passage of | streets and wounded and ds4ng me STARD tandard, in a military sense, of the Bheun M. Depew was! near the aviators dropped bombs « Ml steeped in militarism for forty years, t F guns re < can't stop the American troop. ° - ‘ : mer Senator Dey Jworkers from all parts of the United American troops can be stopped; any | States arrived in England yesterday or : a : the way to France, Italy and. Switz troop: an be pred i Ame ni iand. ‘Those going to taerland troops eam be driven back; any troops| provide relief for» al thou ° eancked back. All the armies; h ea Russians th 6 —_ wail ctori nd our ari s | Hewes Sargent and M TO MAKE YOU HAPPY= @& oii ete sore sim in Ws no different from other armies ex- _ cept that it is newer and lacks ex- perience in_wartare The old “Wel AMERIGAN AIRMEN WIN NEW can lick anybody in the world” stuff Goean't aet_an arms anywhere. Ger-| VIGTORIES IN FRENCH SERVI MOTHER CANT Sweets Company 1 now she finds herself : on the western front ajoecond Lieut. Baylies Sec juipped, both as to Twelfth; Sergi. Putnam arms and morale, force than § His Siaih faced since 1914 BREATHING SPELL FOR ALLIES) FARIS. June t—The twelfth NONE FOR THE FOE. Bedford, Mass and th Wh brings back the subject of David B. Putnam of Bi COME WITH ME » Bunce) GV OUNFOR ED BE Hoth Ame are nt mu De EDAD CAPRA he ns ran repor at I M v rs pour. }ond Lieut, Royau his f nth i ! A on at ford: canaries wonoenis) AMERICAN GIFTS SHED 1 i et : ; ae BY ADVANCING GERMANS That all the family, young and Sta lw is the G rea i Haale! snd, shy.| Property Valued at Millions, G old, find much joy in those ins outnum ane ea Na A delicious Nut Tootsie Rolls. i Saiucal Mes le tke rougn j i e rwh 1 in th and, untess | Captured in France er n efforta,| PARIS, Jurte Millions of if t trou ats, worth propert give b r Ore rere uF detent citisens, the as Anne M ZN Ii we \t France| has 1 uptured G eet f the war,| their advance in nity of ry ; 1 vey were! Vasp ma A " Ww ed money |r purchased here f and i aw upon Gestroyed me ¢ t 1 she |e ae . spell fia sie o ly wa animated that idea four eho keeps of fighting, The Allies cay! back again, CE ANNAPOLIS MIDDIES FINISH COURSE IN THREE YEARS ee oe i i ee ee oe eS ee the pearance the huge POOL H O44 men made an inspiring ap- marched into The photo | shows t as Si as they assembly hall resse retary of the Navy D a : $| a 4 > 3 > he class seated en masse els d them. wood, N. J.; Robert O, Ruede, Meri- den, Conn. PRISONERS, (Previously reported | missing.) | Sergts. Joseph P. Nolan, Hartford, Conn; Frank L. Smith, Revere, Mans IN CASUALTY LIST cesses ate'so" 68th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. | Privates George Korman, No, | Broome Street, Newark, N. J. Conn CORRECTION. . Previously repogted missin, o Lieut. Duncan R, Grant Re- Eitteh Mike Adar od Rea Groen) ported Killed in an Aero- Lieut. Ralph M. Noble, Galesburg, WASHINGTON, Pe War twelve dead from wounds om disease rshing reported 48 cas lows: Department t ul VICTIM ACC! plane Accident. June 7.—Goneral lalties to the divided as seveht 1 in actton seven dead six de iden's OF AIRPLANE DENT WAS A SON OF NEW YORK BANKER sedate Lieut. Grant Left Cornell to Enter six wounded severel ; bs i Aviation ool and Received KILLED IN ACTION Commission in Spring Lieuts, Robert B NRC 4 ; Lieut, Duncan R. Grant, reported in litaden, Neb.t Henry W. Cl en, Pershing’s casualty list to-day ton, Mass as killed in an airplane accident, was Corpls. Joseph Drabiin, Lodi, Cals} a son of David C. Grant, vice prest Herman 1. Evans, To fet. KY} dent of the Lincoln Nutional Bank of as Triplett, Hunting Ne Goal ay ; , Privates Joe W. Houret, Cheyenns,| nut Cte: AS cider. Brother, Chariea N. Da Clarence Henry. Caw, g1_| tant aleo is in the Aviation Herviog eens nymond ¥. Cutnbent. | 1h training a n i ite of r, Wash.; Walter W. Haw! A junior in) Cornell University Grant lett coll fall to nati, O.; George Oien, Bro ile wee an aviation: traint 100 Mass.; Nass a3, Saheen, Moorehead Minn.; Guy W. Showers, Harr M re ee wee commission early this spring and wa Mike Sinkevich, Ea ; ent to Canada before embarking for Horlle C. Smith, Middlet Hae eer abe France, He was twr 4 f mre BM ) Mr nt had not ved word his son's death to-day. Mr. and M DIED OF WOUNDS |} Grant are occupying t summer Lieuts, Lynn H. Harriman, Con-| home dn New Rochely the War 1,.N. H.; Wellborn S. Priddy, Chi- | Department's telegram ing them 0, IM | of the accident was returned from (he Corpls, Otto G. Ab Newkirk, | city address, No. 24 Kast 10th Street ‘kia; Robert negan, Pittsburgh,| Corpl, H. BE, We ken prisons \ is a nephew of Lieut. Willlam J Mechanteian Herman Hansen, Erd-| O'Brien of the Coast Artillery Corps », Mich, He is twenty-s old, born rivates in New Haven and graduated from ul, Ind the High School the He enlis ro, Cal in Company LD, > eecticu nville Infantry, now the t 1 States In Leon fantry, and went npa 1, Mass. to the Mexicar 1916, Att pn; A gins, Visal |the death of pa he came DIED OF DISEASE Jive with hiv ur a19 H Gen, Robert B. L. Michie, | Street, Brooklyn n, Va -> ieee AMERICA MAKING RIFLES vce | ij FASTER THAN NEEDED 1, Ca ates. Che kson Tex.; W i, Harris, Ma-| qtready Has Enough for 2,000,000 Ws ¢ ft ' 1, Fa sa Wooa,{| Men and ts Turning Them Out Mass. | at Rate of 7,941 a Da DIED OF ACCIDENTS, WASHINGTON, J The Wa cuts. Livingston L. Baker (aero- | Department annou t the produ uceident), San I Cal.| tion of army rit 1 the Duncan R. Grant (aeroplane acci- | 1,500,000 mark, of are dent), No. 24 East 10th Street New| modified Lee-k ! 176,796 are York | Sp ds and 251 sre Rusatan 1H. Nev ner ent, | tilles Minr America had 6 pringfeld a w war began at Live aul p J Preys " nand will ca army of 1 Emar 000 men and f with a town, No J exerve muske WOUNDED SEVERELY La ‘ ; tes rpls. Vester A. Beason, ¢ 4. | amounted t \ un Worcester, Mass; Uacar Visou, Wid+! auivmac patue and macgine suns. «| American expeditionary forces: : | Lieut > | until the escape of his engineers had | | | 3! Some for Action at Cambrai, Others for Conspicuous Bravery. | WITH THH AMERIGAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Thursday, June 6 (by | Assoctated Press)—The Distinguished Service Cron has been awarded to the following officers and men of the Experiences under fire and dimeut-# ties faced by correspondents in thé! battle sone in France are told it letter fust recetved by the Associated” Press from one of its correspondents with the American Expeditionary} Forces. Ho alpo tells of the fine mteg rale of the American troops. “The conditions in the north (req, ferring to the Oise district) were quite exciting for correspondents,” he writes. “When I wan there I was liv.) ing in @ town #0 close to ti that six-inch shells came in on we Shrapnel broke right over my house,) breaking off the brick-like shingles: A "Carnegie bowler” (steel Shelmety) was my beat friend. There is nothing, quite #0 upsetting as to be writing « plece for the papers and hear that) whistle of a shell coming your wny, hear it break almost overhead andj then hear the whistle that shrapnel makes a# it shoots downward. The incessant racket kept up day and) night. . “Nights it was worse; absolutely Preventing sleep, There were the rumble and roar of French and Ger-! man guns nearer the line, the crash! Iieut, George 8, Redwood, Chris- tian 8, Holmes, Bergt. James A. Mure phy, Corpls, Ernest Burch and Henry J. Mongeay; Privates Eiward Arm- strong, Bernhard 8, Rolt and Carson 1, Shuman: Capt. C. Raymond Hul- art, Lieut. Paul McCloud and Second Donald Moosaac | ‘The Inst three are gineera and won their ¢ their behavior In the fight on Nov. 80 southwest of Cambrai when the American engineers asststed the Brit- ish In withstanding a German attack. {Paul MoCloud Is an engineer of some note in New York State, He laid out the plans for the village of Palisade, opposite 135th P Street, this city.) |. Lieut. McCloud remained under fire railway en- ‘owses for | been effected. Then he assisted in | rallying the British troops, led them | into trenches and direoted the | procurement and distribution of am~- |munition, dimplaying coolness andlof « French heavy about a block |Judgment while continually UN4®F) away, the whistle of shell going out fire, and coming in and the o-r-rr-r-ump! Lieut, Moosaac, who was a 86 of German H. EK shells exploding. When you finally drop off to sleep about three in the morning the racket is not so great, but you never know whether you ‘will wake up in the bed where you went to sleep, a hospital bed or whether the next thing you hear will be the yoice of old Bt. Peter telling you to wipe the mud off your boots before entering, “Added ta, other troubles, probably | geant at the time, went Into a barrage to the asali a wounded Amer- lean soldier and remained until help arrived. He plunged into the bar- rage fire a second timein aearch of @ | missing British soldier, Lieut, Kulsart acted, aa did Lieut McCloud, in directing the esdape of his men under heavy shell fire When they were caught unarmed under the 1 have @ small quantity of gag in me. Fg bate attack and remained until all}! got a whiff about pases arene or m had Jeft. Later he passed | S80. It wasu'teaough 6 do.aty parm, aside trom once and making my ny ees aE Mraat” through barrage fire, once’ to assist in the removal af wounded | smart. I ng throat is still @ litties ie in to h | sore. not got fnousd, tuck |!y American soldiers and again to search | fore Od aot, set abel for wounded British soldiers. In the case of these Engineer offi- men had been previous ly warmly praised by the British for the part they played during the Cam- brat fighting in November, the de- tails of which have been previously see @ doctor, Bat t son eins, odin fond one small whiff instead of a le of Dig ones. oon jut the whole business js full to the brim with excitement bred by un certainty, and quite the most interests ing thing in the world, I would not | have missed ingle one of the xx pertences L have had for @ million told dollars. Any front, I think, is prot Lieut. Burch acted with conspicuous | ably the most cheerful place on earth. bravery in leaving his dugout under although nobody would ever think #0, bombardment and going |The farther you get away from the an intense b lines the more gloom there |s. But to the rescue of a wounded comrade | where shells fly and life ts worth lying outside exposed to the enemy | about o nickel nothing matters to ig any nody. A laugh and a emile is thal sf thing. Lieut. Redwood and four mem- | "AT sone this is because the aver- bers of his company, Corpi. Mongeay|age American soldier goes into battle and Privates Armstrong, Rolt and/or into the front firmly convinced Shuman got into a portion of an|that he'll only get a wound if the luck enemy trench and were surrounded {y right, and at the same time de- by a party of double their number. | termined to forget all about it and They drove off the énemy and made | enjoy life. I have heard more funny their way back tp the American | qtories and more laughter among our lines with four prisoners. | men in the line in one night than — ut, Holmes “led a patrol and| have heard ig wall the rest of the time ¥ displayed extraordinary coolness and jeen in Europe. daring in cutting twelve stra nds of re a great crowd, these of al enemy wir front ning | fighters of ours; ‘whether they do |post and crawling through.” their fighting on the ground or tn he leaped on a sentinel, made him|the air. They are game to the core, prisoner and brought him back | cheerful, happy and have one thought through No Man's Land. Sergt./only, That ts: ‘Kill Germans.” And ‘Murphy alded in the exploit: and|they never overlook a chance. 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Correspondent Tells off ~ Exciting Experience Writ- * ing Under Shell Fire. a a ee ee = ee a +